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The rare Singing and
Praying Bands of America(Sydney Morning Herald) May 25 - Glen Burnie: On a sweltering Sunday morning in a little church not far
from Washington, DC, a mesmerising singing rises and falls, rises and falls,
over and again - each peak higher than the previous - before the band reaches a
joyous clapping, foot-stamping crescendo an hour after their quiet start.

Also:
School officials join
radicalisation fight (Brisbane
Times) May 29 - Senior education officials will support law enforcement agencies to
prevent Australian schoolchildren from being radicalised and lured overseas by
foreign fighters.

Islamic State claims
blast at Saudi Arabia mosque(Sydney Morning Herald) May 30 - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed four
people at a Shiite Muslim mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, the second
attack claimed by the Sunni militant group in a week in the world's top
oil-exporting country.

ISLAM

Secret deal to tie up
halal market (news.com.au) May 25 - A NUMBER of the region’s top Muslim leaders signed a secret deal in
Mecca last year to tie up more of the $1 trillion halal certification market.

Also:
Is Khaled Sharrouf’s
family still entitled to Australian citizenship? (news.com.au) May 30 - A SEVEN-year-old Australian boy who horrified the world when he was photographed
holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier by the hair has created a quandary
for the Federal Government, which wants to make scores of Australian fighters
in the Middle East someone else’s problem by revoking their citizenship.